Gregory Shea
Gregory P. Shea, Ph.D., consults, teaches, researches, and writes in the areas of organizational and individual change, leadership and its development, innovation, and group effectiveness. He has worked extensively in multiple industries and with senior leadership including boards of directors as well as deep within organizations. He is a Senior Fellow at the Wharton School’s Center for Leadership and Change, Adjunct Professor of Management at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and of its Aresty Institute of Executive Education, Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics at the Wharton School, President of Shea & Associates, Inc. He served as Academic Director for the Johnson and Johnson/Wharton Program for Health System CEO’s and for fourteen years as Academic Director for the Johnson and Johnson/Wharton Fellows Program for Nurse Executives. His awards include an Excellence in Teaching Award from Wharton. He is a member of the Academy of Management and the American Psychological Association.
Dr. Shea has co-authored Leading Successful Change: 8 Keys to Making Change Work (revised edition, 2020), We Can Fix Healthcare: The Future Is Now (2016), Your Job Survival Guide: A Manual for Thriving in Change (2009), American Healthcare & the Consumer Experience (2005), and The Phantom Stethoscope: A Field Manual for Finding an Optimistic Future in Medicine (1999) and has contributed chapters to the following books: Business Management for the Curious: Why Study Business Management (2015), Strategic Thinking and Entrepreneurial Action in Health Care (2007), Medicine and Business (2000), Handbook of Industrial and Organizational Psychology (2nd edition; 1992), Managing Hospitals (1991), and Research in Personnel and Human Resource Management (Volume 5; 1987). Dr. Shea’s writing has appeared in the Harvard Business Review, Sloan Management Review, California Management Review, Journal of Applied Management, Journal of Applied Behavior Science, Journal of Conflict Resolution, British Journal of Social Psychology, Directors and Boards, Strategy and Leadership, Journal of Management Development, Healthcare Transformation, Nursing Administration Quarterly, Annals of Surgery, Health Management Policy and Innovation, and School Administrator. He is a contributor to Knowledge@Wharton and Wharton’s Business Radio channel.
Dr. Shea is a Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Harvard College and holds an M.Sc. in Management Studies from the London School of Economics and an M.A., M. Phil., and Ph.D. in Administrative Science from Yale University. His website is www.gregoryshea.com and his LinkedIn address is https://www.linkedin.com/in/gregory-shea-1108871/